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Trump's Abu Dhabi Speech Highlights

All right, we are interrupting sport to take you back to Abu Dhabi where President Donald Trump is speaking on his last stop of his golf tour. Let's listen in. Anything like it actually and I'm quoting sources that don't particularly prefer me. Uh this has not been uh anything like what we've done in the last four days. But I want to thank his highness and I want to also thank his highness shake taknun for welcoming us to this uh beautiful beautiful palace, beautiful place. Just generally thank you all. Thank you very much. It was uh it was very exciting. I also want to recognize all of the officials here from the area as well as the many extraordinary business leaders with us today. We have some of the biggest business leaders and they've been here over the last couple of days and you know there's a great relationship with uh Saudi Arabia, Qatar and UAE. There's great friendships. I can tell you that at the top level uh the relationship and friendship is good. It's a really unified Middle East. It's something that we haven't seen. Um the US was absent for four years. We didn't really know too much what we were doing for four years and uh things were not going good. Other people were courting the Middle East, but they won't even waste their time in courting them any longer. The people in this room have helped commence between the United States and United Arab Emirates grow$ 34 billion dollars a year, America's second highest total in the Middle East. the and catching I mean going but you know the other one's going up very quickly also the United States has also uh put one 19.5 billion trade surplus with UAE and we are really thriving economically and over the last period of time we started it eight years ago the relationship then it was interrupted as you know sadly interrupted and not much happened nothing happened actually. But the relationship is now uh at a much higher level than it ever was and it's going to only go in one direction because of the relationship. We have American companies. We have Exxon and Oracle, RTX, Quailcom, and many others. Too many to name. Disney. I see that new theme park is going to be incredible. Bob Iger was in my office the other day and he was showing it to me. It's going to be incredible. But we're making great progress toward a $1.4 trillion dollars that UAE has announced that it intends to spend in the United States over the next couple of years. Yesterday, the two countries also agreed to create a path for UAE to buy some of the world's most advanced AI semiconductors from American companies. A very big contract. This will generate billions and billions of dollars in business and accelerate the UAE's plans to become a really major player in artificial intelligence. And I read where uh the oil and gas and oil is great, but you're going to have uh equally big and maybe even bigger at some point. You'll be surpassing it with AI and other and other businesses. So, it's uh that's a great tribute to the job you've done here. The United Arab Emirates is also making incredible strides in industries like energy, real estate, and manufacturing. And I see it just in the drive out. And when you look at this building, this building is amazing. We were here last night in the big auditorium. And it's amazing. There's really nothing like it. The global aluminum from the Emirates has been uh the talk of the aluminum business. They're very big with aluminum and now they're going to be spending a tremendous amount of money in one of my favorite places, Oklahoma on expansion. And they I said just build your plant inside the United States and you have no tariffs. And that's exactly what they're doing. And that's what many many companies are doing. The auto companies, all of them. Uh there's never been anything like what's happening right now to the United States. I can tell you nothing. There's never been anything like it. We're at a level uh that no country has seen. I don't believe we have uh I mean every time I meet I end I usually increase it by about a trillion dollars because we get news of another investment but we're probably in the 12 to13 trillion range of investments and uh you can have a a administration go for years and not have anything like that and not only not that have less than $8 trillion and we I think we're heading toward the 12 to13 trillion between projects already announced, mostly announced, but uh some are going to be announced very shortly and literally very shortly. And two things are the factor. Number one, November 5th, that was the election. We had the most successful election that in memory they said one of the major uh media sources said the most consequential election in 129 years and that gives us a mandate. It gives us a mandate to do the right things for businesses. We can uh we can do what we want to do because there's so much incompetence shown over the last four years that people just don't want they don't want to have that anymore. or whether it's the border where people pour into our country without being even checked or looked at. 21 million people, many of them are not the people you want. I'm going to be very nice because this is a little bit different setting, but they're not the people you want. But we now have 99.9% closed. Nobody thought that was possible. We had a very successful border the first time. I won the election the first time in 2016 because of the border. We made it very good, very fast. But now it's even at a new level because I built hundreds of miles of wall which we didn't have in the first election because I hadn't started that yet. But uh we will soon have a very safe country. We're getting people out. We need help from the courts. The courts are trying to think that they're uh they're taking privilege that they shouldn't have. That was not what the election was all about. The election was they want uh they want people that shouldn't be there. people that are criminals in many cases. They want them out. They want them out. We're going to get them out fast. We just reached a fantastic trade deal, as you know, with the United Kingdom, which was wonderful. And we have another big one that we just reached with China. The China deal is a very big deal. It's in the process of uh uh continuing to be formed, but they wanted to make that deal very badly. and we have at the same time 150 countries that uh want to make a deal but you're not able to see that many countries. So at a certain point over the next two to three weeks I think Scott and Howard will be sending letters out essentially telling people it would be very fair but we'll be telling people uh what they'll be paying to do business in the United States. They'll essentially be paying to be doing business in the United States. I guess you could say they could appeal it, but for the most part, I think we're going to be very fair, but it's not it's not possible to meet the number of people that want to see us. And uh but this was coming to UAE was very important. Coming to uh Saudi Arabia and Qatar was very important to me because of personal relationships that I had maybe more than anything else. So, it's been an amazing period of time. Uh people have said very very uh I mean I don't know we're developing a lot of fans but people have said they've never seen anything like taken place over the last four days in terms of investment in terms of the kind of money coming back into the United States and all that money. The money is a nice word but it's really jobs. We have jobs uh that are at a level that we very soon will not be able to nobody can duplicate it and people want to be our partner. They want to be investing in the United States and uh they weren't doing that. They weren't happy with the United States for pretty long period of time. So, we've done something that I'm very proud of. We'll be heading back now and I look forward to that. We're going back to DC. Uh, I just had a, uh, little announcement of a beautiful grandchild, a boy, uh, Tiffany and Michael. So, uh, we're very excited about that. I look forward to that. I probably should have left yesterday, but I couldn't disappoint you. Your father would have been extremely upset with me, and you would have been more upset. He would have understood. So, we had such a beautiful evening, and they planned it so beautifully. I said, "I'm going to have to wait just a little bit." But, uh, the way we were treated by your family, the way we were treated by Qatar, Saudi Arabia and others is just been uh, so I'm very proud to be representing the United States of America. And thank you all for being here. And media, thank you very much. You've been very fair. Thank you very much. [Applause] Mr. I apologize. Uh we've lost our news feed. We were taking live pictures, a live news conference of US President Donald Trump. He's speaking in Abu Dhabi on his final stop, final leg of his Middle East tour that started in Saudi Arabia on Monday night. Uh he was speaking about the great business investments that he has been able to get Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates and how he's been able to get them to invest in the United States. Very much focusing on that. He spoke of the trade surplus that the US has with the United Arab Emirates. He said that's not something uh that the US of course has with most countries and it's something that this US president is very focused on as trade deficits or trade imbalances as he sees them. He said that the United Arab Emirates announced that it would spend more than $1 trillion in the US. Let's bring in our White House correspondent Kimberly Halit because she is joining us on set. Kimberly, it's great to have you here. Thank you uh with us especially since you have been following Trump on this tour so far. Interesting comments. He said that coming to the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Qatar was very important because of the personal relationships. He said more than anything else. This is a president who believes in personal relationships and he's trying to say that he's been able to leverage all of this economic investment in the US because of his personal relationships with people. Yeah. Donald Trump has is famously transactional, but he also conducts government like a CEO. And so that is how he also sort of approaches diplomacy. That's how he gets things done. He's a king dealmaker. And he's proven that. And so he's now tallying up what he's accomplished in the last four days. And so now he's going to go back to the American people and say, "Look at I made you promises and I've kept them." And here's my score sheet. Uh in Saudi Arabia, I had 600 billion in deals. I did 243 billion in Qatar. And I've got you uh in orders now from UAE. I'm going to be uh making sure that there are Boeing airplanes that are being made. And this is going to be jobs and GE engines are going to be in them. And this is going to translate to uh good things for the American people. He's saying he's ushering in a golden era. Uh, Donald Trump has to deliver for the American people and he's making good on those promises. But it's also something else. Donald Trump needs this right now because tariffs are kicking in. The prices are going up and he promised he was going to bring prices down. So, he's got a little bit of a problem. He needs good headlines, but he also needs to have this distraction because uh it's going to be a little bit tough for him given the fact that there's going to be this kind of tense period while some of these prices are high when he said they would be low until things sort of work themselves out with the tariffs. Okay. And the all of the business deals which have very much been the focus of this trip. That aside, we've also seen some really big geopolitical, at least one breakthrough on this trip with Trump announcing while he was in Saudi Arabia that he intends to get uh Congress, I suppose, to lift sanctions on Syria, even meeting the transitional president Ahmed al- Shada the next day in Saudi Arabia, which really surprised everyone. That was massive. It was huge. Uh there were hints that this was going to happen, but no one thought that the lifting of sanctions in Syria was actually on Syria was going to happen. So the fact that this did happen, there was the thunderous applause in Saudi Arabia and the standing up uh and then the meeting that happened on the sidelines of the GCC was was enormous. But even more so, the sitdown was an embrace of the future of Syria. But that was one breakthrough. Then there was the other one that and that was Donald Trump saying we're close to a deal in Iran of potentially limiting that nuclear program. Things have been so hot and the fear that there could be a spiraling of things in the broader Middle East as a result of that. Uh so the fact that that could potentially be at a breakthrough was another sign that things were turning around. And then the fact that there was some advancement in Ukraine. It wasn't the development people were hoping. People were hoping there was going to be a sitdown between Vladimir Putin and Vladimir Zilinski. It didn't happen. But the other thing is is things are still moving along albeit slowly and that was another development simultaneously. So there were these two tracks. There was the commerce track and there was the diplomatic track. That's our White House correspondent Kimberly Halot for now. Thank you very much Kimberly. Make sure to subscribe to our channel to get the latest news from Alazer.